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Easy Sweet Potatoes with Kahlua

"Sometimes the best things in life are simple, sweet, and easy. This rich and yummy sweet potato dish goes great with Thanksgiving dinner. It's a natural fit for turkey and dressing, and it's also wonderful with pork."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Easy Sweet Potatoes with Kahlua

Why it works: Sweet potato and pecans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Easy Sweet Potatoes with Kahlua

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

570Calories
8 gProtein
32 gFat
70 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Coffeenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sweet potato + pecanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Sweet potato + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Coffee + pecanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the raisin

The recipe marks raisin as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, butter, sugar, coffee, pecans):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, butter, sugar, coffee, pecans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.